Dr Leila Janani Advanced Research Fellow and Senior Clinical Trials Statistician

Leila Janani is an Advanced Research Fellow and Senior Clinical Trials Statistician at the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU), where she is also Deputy Head of Trial Methodology. She has over 14 years of experience in the design and analysis of healthcare studies.

Her research focuses on improving the design, analysis, and reporting of randomised clinical trials, with particular interests in adaptive designs and Bayesian methods.

Leila is a member of the NIHR Statistics Working Group on Improving Statistical Literacy and serves on Trial Steering Committees (TSCs) and Independent Data Monitoring Committees (IDMCs).

Leila holds a BSc in Statistics, an MSc and a PhD in Biostatistics, and has also completed an MBA certificate programme. Before joining Imperial College London, she worked as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Iran University of Medical Sciences and as Head of the Biostatistics Unit at the Clinical Trial Center (CTC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences.